No Man...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

--John Donne

Never Fail

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

--Corinthians 13:1-8 (King James Version)

It Breaks Regularly

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.

--Andrew Harvey

Surprise Quiz

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

--Richard Bach

Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily...

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

--Douglas Adams

It's Not Illegal

When the President does it, that means it's not illegal.

--Richard M. Nixon

It Does...

Eppur, si muove.
(And yet, it does move.)

--Galileo Galilei

Reasonable & Just

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

--Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (March 15, 1990)

The Point Is...

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

--Galileo Galilei

Distrust Wit

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

--Edward Abbey

Our Sin

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

--Charles Darwin

Truth

More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond to the truth, often without realizing that you have done so.

--Harold Pinter

The Box

It never occurred to them that, if everyone had to think outside the box, maybe it was the box that needed fixing.

--Malcolm Gladwell

Pick His Pocket

The average American has a long history of being reflexively xenophobic, so getting him worked up about enemies from abroad, especially dark-skinned ones, has always been an especially effective way of distracting him while you pick his pocket.

--Jane Smiley

A Few Good Men

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

--George Washington

Don't Know

The only thing new is the history you don't know.

--Harry S. Truman

The Soul

The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies of different shapes and colors. Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

--Jose Marti

I Wish

I wish things were like when Ronald Reagan was still president.

--Saddam Hussein, 2005